Actually, the lyric comes from a word game called "the exquisite corpse." People take turns writing one word of a sentence, without knowing what word came before, resulting in really weird and surreal turns of phrase. I know of nobody who actually sits around in their living rooms playing parlor games like this, but a lot of writers like to imagine that there are people who do.
Actually, there are people who still play Exquisite Corpse. My friends and I play it. Granted we don't call it Exquisite Corpse. We call it "Edible Lime" instead...one of my friends doesn't like the original name and thinks it's disturbing, so I changed it to something weird for her. But we still play it. We take turns passing a paper with part of something we've written on it and read the often humorous results. In that way it ends up being rather like Mad Libs but with stuff we made up all on our own. (It was especially fun playing...
Actually, there are people who still play Exquisite Corpse. My friends and I play it. Granted we don't call it Exquisite Corpse. We call it "Edible Lime" instead...one of my friends doesn't like the original name and thinks it's disturbing, so I changed it to something weird for her. But we still play it. We take turns passing a paper with part of something we've written on it and read the often humorous results. In that way it ends up being rather like Mad Libs but with stuff we made up all on our own. (It was especially fun playing the game with a Star Trek fan who is a friend of mine. References to the show kept popping up in her contributions...)
And it surprised me to hear of the drawing version warmPhase is talking about! My father and I played that game when I was a kid! He never called it Exquisite Corpse, but I guess that's not really a game you want your little six year old to be repeating. Just imagine it...asking my friends, "Hey, you wanna play Exquisite Corpse?" (But I never had friends as a child anyway.) But I'm surprised someone else played it that way! I wonder where my dad learned about it. He probably didn't know it was called Exquisite Corpse...he's not really what you'd call a Surrealist of any kind. I explained the idea of Dadaism to him, and he thought it was funny, but that's the closest.
But DavidGrimmer, at least you know that people play that game. Granted we don't sit around in a living room (we play outdoors at a park) and we mostly do it for the humor value, but we play it.
Actually, the lyric comes from a word game called "the exquisite corpse." People take turns writing one word of a sentence, without knowing what word came before, resulting in really weird and surreal turns of phrase. I know of nobody who actually sits around in their living rooms playing parlor games like this, but a lot of writers like to imagine that there are people who do.
Actually, there are people who still play Exquisite Corpse. My friends and I play it. Granted we don't call it Exquisite Corpse. We call it "Edible Lime" instead...one of my friends doesn't like the original name and thinks it's disturbing, so I changed it to something weird for her. But we still play it. We take turns passing a paper with part of something we've written on it and read the often humorous results. In that way it ends up being rather like Mad Libs but with stuff we made up all on our own. (It was especially fun playing...
Actually, there are people who still play Exquisite Corpse. My friends and I play it. Granted we don't call it Exquisite Corpse. We call it "Edible Lime" instead...one of my friends doesn't like the original name and thinks it's disturbing, so I changed it to something weird for her. But we still play it. We take turns passing a paper with part of something we've written on it and read the often humorous results. In that way it ends up being rather like Mad Libs but with stuff we made up all on our own. (It was especially fun playing the game with a Star Trek fan who is a friend of mine. References to the show kept popping up in her contributions...)
And it surprised me to hear of the drawing version warmPhase is talking about! My father and I played that game when I was a kid! He never called it Exquisite Corpse, but I guess that's not really a game you want your little six year old to be repeating. Just imagine it...asking my friends, "Hey, you wanna play Exquisite Corpse?" (But I never had friends as a child anyway.) But I'm surprised someone else played it that way! I wonder where my dad learned about it. He probably didn't know it was called Exquisite Corpse...he's not really what you'd call a Surrealist of any kind. I explained the idea of Dadaism to him, and he thought it was funny, but that's the closest.
But DavidGrimmer, at least you know that people play that game. Granted we don't sit around in a living room (we play outdoors at a park) and we mostly do it for the humor value, but we play it.